“My book The Great Cholesterol Myth is all about how dietary recommendations over the past 30 years to lower animal fat, reduce saturated fat, and stock up on grains and high-carbohydrate foods is all bulls**t. here are so many misconceptions about what we need to do to get lean and healthy, about what we should or shouldn’t be eating, that I never take it at face value when someone says that they ‘eat healthy’.”

“In the olden days of Gold’s Gym at Muscle Beach, guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbu, and Frank Zane would never eat before they worked out. They weren’t masters of physiology, but they said ‘You’ll burn more fat.’ and they were right! The best time to work out when you’re trying to burn fat is in the morning after you’ve fasted all night when blood sugar is kind of low, he continues. “Why load up on glucose and carbs and then just burn that when working out?”

“There’s a compensatory mechanism where we get hungry and then overeat because we think, psychologically, that since we worked out that we can afford extra calories. Then we miscalculate and go into a calorie overload. [But] to lose body fat and keep the muscle you have, it might be better not to eat after workout to allow your body to break open fat cells to use for repair and energy instead of adding more fuel. I know the classic argument: ‘But you have to replenish your glycogen storage!’ There are 1,800 calories in your glycogen storage. Do you know how many hours you have to workout to burn those 1,800 calories? Most people don’t have to worry about that.”

En hoe zit het dan met nemen dextrose na de training?

“If you have a great metabolism, no insulin resistance, and your carbohydrate metabolism is okay, sugar after a workout is fine,” he explains. “But 99 percent of the people with whom I have interacted with aren’t in that category. For those people, eating sugar afterwards is a bad thing to do.”

“Cavemen didn’t eat low-fat bison; they ate what they could hunt, fish, gather, or pluck. So if you eat foods like eggs, coconut, or grass-fed beef, you’ll be getting plenty of fat in your diet. Don’t add more [saturated fat] to your diet, just don’t avoid foods it’s naturally found in.”

“Go to basically any restaurant in America and they’ll be using that crappy omega-6 vegetable oil, like corn oil or soybean oil, that damages easily,” he adds. “And they use it for a week. They fry it, cool it, refry it, cool it … and that creates carcinogenic compounds and trans fat. It’s damaged, and eating tons of vegetable oil and eliminating other [types of oil] creates inflammation in the body, which is part of diabetes, obesity, cancer, and Alzheimer’s. It’s not that you should never eat omega-6s—they’re essential—but we’re consuming 16 times more omega-6s than omega-3s. What you want is a diet that counterbalances the inflammation with anti-inflammatory fats like omega-3s and 9s.”

“People who say, ‘Don’t eat saturated fat! Don’t eat meat! Eat lots of carbs!’ are wrong … and they’re literally instructing you to turn on an insulin fountain,” Bowden warns. “The hormone insulin is what drives weight gain. Carbs have the strongest and most direct affect on insulin; protein has a minor effect on insulin; and fat has zero effect on insulin. So we’ve come up with dietary recommendations that make 65 percent of our diet the things that raise the fat storage hormone! We took all of that good fat that had a neutral effect on insulin—the fat storage hormone—and replaced it with bulls**t sugar, grains, and high-carb food that we think are healthy but really aren’t.”

“Stress hormones send messages to the body, one of which is to store fat around the body. The most studied and effective way to reduce stress is meditation, because it lowers cortisol and blood pressure levels.”

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